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Postby Diclonius16 » Wed May 30, 2007 8:25 pm

All I can say is that the best place to buy good Anime is Ebay. I bought both Serial Experiments Lain and Elfen Lied for a total $30. Looking most places, it would cost, just for one of them, about $80. Need I say anything else?
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Postby NeoQuixotic » Wed May 30, 2007 8:33 pm

Just be sure to avoid bootlegs. Most cheap sets are either bootlegs or if you're lucky someone selling a used set. I just checked and almost every complete set of Lain and Elfen Lied are bootlegs.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Wed May 30, 2007 10:27 pm

Yea, ebay is HORRIBLE for getting legit DVDs. I got so fed up, I've reported hundreds of bootlegs to them over the past few years. Thy really need to crack down on this kind of thing. On a related note. If it is a bootleg that you're buying and they ship it USPS, it's felony mail fraud.
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Postby tyromaniac » Thu May 31, 2007 2:19 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:Yea, ebay is HORRIBLE for getting legit DVDs. I got so fed up, I've reported hundreds of bootlegs to them over the past few years. Thy really need to crack down on this kind of thing. On a related note. If it is a bootleg that you're buying and they ship it USPS, it's felony mail fraud.


true that, I got dem bootlegs twice....but I had no previous knowledge of legitimacy. If the offer is too good to be true, it isn't true. That's the golden rule in this case.
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Postby Diclonius16 » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:04 pm

So far I haven't run into bootlegs. But I'll keep a watch out for them. Besides that, it really isn't that bad.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:27 pm

Diclonius16 wrote:So far I haven't run into bootlegs. But I'll keep a watch out for them. Besides that, it really isn't that bad.


If you're buying bootlegs, you may as well use downloaded fansubs, the quality will be better. :?
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Postby tyromaniac » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:28 pm

Diclonius16 wrote:So far I haven't run into bootlegs. But I'll keep a watch out for them. Besides that, it really isn't that bad.

The problem is, sometimes you can't tell if its legit or not, even when the price is near what it should be. Sometimes, the bootlegs have "branded" insignias and symbols that are put into the dvds at random times. Sometimes, the subtitles will advertise some random website.....its happend to me before.
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Postby Scintilla » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:03 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
Diclonius16 wrote:So far I haven't run into bootlegs. But I'll keep a watch out for them. Besides that, it really isn't that bad.

If you're buying bootlegs, you may as well use downloaded fansubs, the quality will be better. :?

What bootlegs have YOU been watching? The only ones I've ever seen looked almost as good as the R1 DVDs, plus they had the English dub and sub tracks, and sometimes some of the extras as well.

With the exception of the one I saw once that had absolutely horrible English subs (you could tell it had gone through Chinese) and slight ghosting, but the images still looked pretty beautiful overall, and the dub track was there.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:05 pm

I've seen bootlegs that rip off the fansub's subtitles O.o

ive also seen bootlegs that are better ql than the R1s >.<

still id rather have the official coppies because i want anime to keep comming into this country...
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:10 pm

Scintilla wrote:
BasharOfTheAges wrote:
Diclonius16 wrote:So far I haven't run into bootlegs. But I'll keep a watch out for them. Besides that, it really isn't that bad.

If you're buying bootlegs, you may as well use downloaded fansubs, the quality will be better. :?

What bootlegs have YOU been watching? The only ones I've ever seen looked almost as good as the R1 DVDs, plus they had the English dub and sub tracks, and sometimes some of the extras as well.

With the exception of the one I saw once that had absolutely horrible English subs (you could tell it had gone through Chinese) and slight ghosting, but the images still looked pretty beautiful overall, and the dub track was there.


The ones they primarily sell on Ebay are full 26 ep seasons on 1 DVD

JaddziaDax wrote:still id rather have the official coppies because i want anime to keep comming into this country...


While I echo your sentiment, you know there's a logical fallacy there. Your individual buying habits will not effect the industry one bit.
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Postby tyromaniac » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:18 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:still id rather have the official coppies because i want anime to keep comming into this country...


While I echo your sentiment, you know there's a logical fallacy there. Your individual buying habits will not effect the industry one bit.


All it takes is a large group of people having this same mind set and this story would be entirely different.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:29 pm

^ what he said O:
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:11 pm

tyromaniac wrote:
BasharOfTheAges wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:still id rather have the official coppies because i want anime to keep comming into this country...


While I echo your sentiment, you know there's a logical fallacy there. Your individual buying habits will not effect the industry one bit.


All it takes is a large group of people having this same mind set and this story would be entirely different.


You are, however not responsible for those others. You are responsible for yourself. Just because someone else does something like you do, doesn't mean the initial attribution of the problem as stated was logically correct.
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Postby Diclonius16 » Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:41 pm

Well, I have watched both the dvd's I have, and they don't have bad subtitles or ghosting or anything, they are legite.
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Postby amvLOVE » Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:49 pm

I bought 3 Lain DVD's from Walmart a few years back 40$ total.. never seen them there again lol
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